From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Davidsen Subject: Re: Cutting power without breaking RAID Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 14:50:46 -0400 Message-ID: <44A42106.3040801@tmr.com> References: <20060628214350.GA23970@rigacci.org> <17571.20553.319133.437688@cse.unsw.edu.au> <20060629094806.GB8313@rigacci.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20060629094806.GB8313@rigacci.org> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Niccolo Rigacci Cc: Neil Brown , linux-raid maillist List-Id: linux-raid.ids Niccolo Rigacci wrote: >On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 02:00:09PM +1000, Neil Brown wrote: > > >>With 2.6, >> killall -9 md0_raid1 >> >>should do the trick (assuming root is on /dev/md0. If it is elsewhere, >>choose a different process name). >> >> > >Thanks, this is what I was looking for! > >I will try remounting read-only and killing the md0_raid1. >I will keep you informed. > > > Why should this trickery be needed? When an array is mounted r/o it should be clean. How can it be dirty. I assume readonly implies noatime, I mount physically readonly devices without explicitly saying noatime and nothing whines. -- bill davidsen CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979